amaotonovel Chapter 2712 New Xanadu (Part )
Chapter 2712 New Xanadu (Part )
Chapter 2712 New Xanadu (Part )
"Who is 'the doctor'?"
Natasha didn't react for a moment. After all, the title of doctor can refer to a doctor, a PhD, or a code name for a special scientific researcher. It is used too widely in modern times. Even in a place like S.H.I.E.L.D., there are a lot of people who can be called doctors.
Natasha saw that Nick's face was getting increasingly ugly. She was a little confused, so she sat opposite Nick and planned to listen to his stories about the past.
"Remember the sinking of Honshu Island?" Nick's expression was so ugly that it could not be described. To be more precise, his face was almost as ugly as Batman's.
"That was a big event," Natasha also showed some nostalgia, "It's been almost 60 years... But didn't you say that our SHIELD doesn't have the secret files from back then? I'm still curious about what kind of nuclear bomb could directly sink such a large island, but this matter has nothing to do with us... right?"
Nick pursed his lips and said nothing.
Natasha's eyes slowly widened.
Nick let out a long sigh, as if he had been holding it in for a long time. He said, "The story has to start a few months before the liberation of Berlin..."
Nick slowly recounted what happened, and Natasha listened attentively. When she heard Nick say that it was he who instigated Congress to use the super nuclear bomb from Hydra, the female agent almost choked herself to death.
"Ahem, so you were the one who caused the accident that is said to be the greatest extinction tragedy in human history?!"
"Not exactly." Nick wanted to argue, he said: "The doctor deliberately made me think that he would keep threatening me with the nuclear bomb, so I wanted to use it as soon as possible."
"Besides, the congressmen didn't want to be blamed in the first place. They thought that if they were held accountable in the future, they could use the fact that the nuclear bomb was built by Hydra as evidence to exonerate themselves."
"And China can't be said to be completely innocent. They must have heard the news a long time ago. Otherwise, how could the King of Ten Thousands open the barrier the moment Honshu Island sank? Not only did it not affect Chinese cities at all, but even their waters were fine?"
"I always feel that you are not guilty about the deaths of tens of millions of people." Natasha just focused and said, "You are just angry that Schiller fooled you."
"Don't be ridiculous. Millions of people? How many of them can be called human beings?" Nick curled his lips in disdain and said, "Don't tell me you don't know about the 100 million suicide plan. That island is full of lunatics. If they had a normal mindset, this wouldn't happen."
Natasha also sneered. Obviously, as a Soviet, she didn't have a good impression of that island country.
"I once heard someone say that Japan always seems to be betting that the whole world will follow their way of thinking. I don't know where their confidence comes from."
The two of them sighed for a while and then returned to the topic. Natasha said, "If all this was directed by Schiller, then it's not surprising that China received the news in advance. However, the mutants..."
Nick sighed again and said, "It was a helpless move at the time. Supporting mutants to establish a nation is better than being branded as the murderer of the worst extinction case in human history, right? Don't forget, votes are above all else!"
Natasha held her chin with her hand and gradually sank into her memories. Those were truly turbulent years.
After the sinking of Honshu Island, the whole world was stunned.
In fact, to be honest, the United States dropping nuclear bombs was tacitly approved by most of the world's superpowers. Not to mention China, with which it already had a blood feud, the Soviet Union had always been dissatisfied with this small island country jumping around behind its back. The Allied Forces such as Britain, the United States, and France could not accept the casualties in their landing operations. It can be said that everyone hit it off.
The so-called "100 million suicide plans" is actually the culprit for the international public opinion to present this attitude. To put it in a nutshell, the 100 million refers to all the Japanese citizens at that time, and "100 million suicide plans" actually means to die together.
In other words, the mainstream trend on the island at that time was that all the people and the landing troops would perish together.
In this fanatical atmosphere, those who could join the army all did so, and those who could not join the army also tried to serve the army. The rational people had long since died out. There were even wives who committed suicide just to allow their husbands to join the army with peace of mind. Such perverted things were widely publicized by the media. It can be said that other countries in the world have long since tacitly accepted that this island is full of lunatics.
In this case, landing was indeed not cost-effective. No one was willing to exchange a normal person's life for a madman's life, so everyone looked at each other and decided that it would be best to scare them all at once.
Prior to this, the United States also carried out rounds of bombings. It can be said that there was not a single good place on the entire four islands, but they failed to achieve sufficient deterrent effect. On the contrary, the more they pressed forward, the crazier the other side became. In the end, not only did they not accept unconditional surrender, they even refused to surrender at all.
What else can we do? Drop a nuclear bomb.
Therefore, the purpose of dropping nuclear bombs is actually to deter the other side and make them surrender. To put it simply, it is to pour cold water on their overheated brains so that they don't think about going crazy every day.
Everyone knows that the United States is arrogant and ruthless, but no one expected that the United States would dare to resort to physical extermination. Once Honshu Island sank, everyone in the world was in danger.
Originally, by this time in the war, everyone had a pretty clear idea of the situation and was basically gathering their remnants and preparing to recuperate. However, with this nuclear bomb launch by the United States, it seemed that the Fourth World War was about to follow in the footsteps of the Third World War.
However, after everyone gathered the remnants, they found that they really could not afford to fight anymore. The Soviet Union, as the main force in World War II, had been severely damaged. Britain and the United States did not have a strong human resource base. The United States wanted to play offshore balance, only providing money but not manpower. How could it have enough manpower to fill another world war?
And other countries have also thought that the country that has suffered the least loss now is the United States. After all, the war has not affected its homeland. So is he doing this to deliberately stir up the world situation so that others will get involved more crazily, and then he can reap the benefits himself?
Thinking of this, those who originally wanted to take some extreme actions restrained themselves a little. After some calculation, there are only four islands in total. Honshu Island is the most populous and the most developed. Now that it has sunk, the remaining three are not a big deal. This country can be completely swept into the dustbin of history.
The country is gone, but the remaining islands are still there. The locations of these three islands are quite good, and they can be said to be the pearls of the Pacific Ocean. Without those annoying lunatics, the remaining countries around them would like these islands very much.
Therefore, the top priority now is not to condemn the United States’ heinous act of genocide, but to quickly find a way to occupy these three islands.
Then China, as the biggest victim, must stand up and say a few words. The question is that since ancient times, it is reasonable and logical, and no matter what, they are determined to take over the island.
Of course, the Soviet Union also wanted to fight for it. They also made great contributions in World War II, and considering the future situation in the Asia-Pacific region, these three islands had to be taken.
The original plan of the United States was to threaten Japan in order to gain control of the Asia-Pacific region. Although the country is gone, the islands will not be a problem. On the contrary, it will be more convenient to develop them into naval bases and forward missile bases. As for these three islands, they are determined to obtain them.
Although China's national strength is slightly weak now, it is after all the first to get the moon. Although the Soviet Union is not far away, their political and military centers are in Europe, which is out of reach of us. Therefore, in terms of geographical location, China has an advantage and can compete with the other two giants.
Not to mention anything else, with such a short distance, if a large number of people were to migrate from the Northeast to occupy the island first, there would be no way the United States would drop a second nuclear bomb. As long as the island is actually occupied, any wrangling in the future would be of little use.
Therefore, on the issue of the ownership of the remaining three islands, it can be said that there is a three-way confrontation. It is not that no one has proposed that each person should have an island, but people want the islands not for their natural resources but for their strategic position, so either they take them all or none.
As the saying goes, when gods fight, mortals suffer. The surrounding small countries were all trembling in fear as they watched these three behemoths, neither of them giving in.
Finally, as friction continued and the Cold War was about to turn into a hot war, China finally stepped in to mediate and proposed a compromise solution that everyone could accept - we build a new country.
Of course, there were indeed protests from the indigenous people of the remaining three islands, but they were already a defeated country, and now more than 90% of their population is gone, and the rest can't make any waves at all. Everyone selectively ignored their voices and decided their fate.
However, which group to support to establish a country was a problem. Both the United States and the Soviet Union felt that China had great geographical advantages and would definitely use the radiation range of their own cultural circles to slowly incorporate this country into their own territory. Therefore, they would never agree to migrate population from Asia.
But if you talk about relocating white people, then there's another problem. This island has just been hit by a nuclear bomb. Even if Superman came, he would cough. Who would be so stupid as to go to the center of the radiation?
Therefore, there are not many choices left, and the criteria for selection have changed from who is willing to go to who can go. So the choices are not few, but only one.
Apart from the mutants who are abandoned by most countries, who else can theoretically withstand radiation?
In fact, to put it bluntly, the vast majority of mutants in most countries cannot withstand it, but the United States and the Soviet Union did not want to let these mutants have an easy time. It is good to have more people die under radiation, which can also weaken their strength and prevent them from causing any trouble.
With the United States and the Soviet Union taking the lead, other countries naturally followed suit, and the most brutal persecution bill against mutants in history was introduced.
Any mutant found to have the X gene must enter the remaining three islands as quickly as possible and establish their own mutant country there.
Theoretically, such cruel treatment would surely cause a huge backlash, but for some reason, many mutant leaders who were originally troublemakers in the local area only made a few symbolic protests and then took their people away.
What's even more amazing is that they not only brought those Alpha or Omega-class mutants who were confident that they could withstand the radiation, but also those Ipsilon-class mutants. It can be said that this was exactly what some countries wished for.
By this time, many countries had realized that something was wrong, but it was too late.
For some unknown reason, the expected tragedy of mutants being exposed to radiation and dying in large numbers did not happen. As soon as the mutants settled on Mishima, they quickly gained a foothold.